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Chors, Fasaadis and Haramzaadas': India's medieval Jat insurrectionaries seem strangely familiar today


Chors, Fasaadis and Haramzaadas : India’s medieval Jat insurrectionaries seem strangely familiar today
The past helps illuminate the present, offering insight, for those who care for it, into how this crisis came about, and where it might head
Praveen Swami
February 09, 2021 10:26:22 IST
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The savage tide of rage broke through the great bronze gates, exploding over the cascades of gemstones, marble and gold that lined the emperor’s grave. “Against him living they could do nothing,” the not-invariably reliable memoirs of the physician Niccolao Mannuci record, “they therefore reaped vengeance on his sepulchre”. That which could not be looted was destroyed. The bones of Abu’l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Akbar, King of Kings, were dug up and set on fire. In all the centuries it had stood, no greater insult had eve ....

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Understanding Panipat 1761 through rare paintings


Understanding Panipat 1761 through rare paintings
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December 22, 2020 18:08 IST
Manoj Dani, an independent U.S.-based researcher of art history, has painstakingly assimilated rare paintings pertaining to the battle and its key players in a work titled Battle of Panipat: In Light of Rediscovered Paintings.
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A miniature painting depicting the battle. Special Arrangement.  
Manoj Dani, an independent U.S.-based researcher of art history, has painstakingly assimilated rare paintings pertaining to the battle and its key players in a work titled Battle of Panipat: In Light of Rediscovered Paintings.
Before Waterloo 1815, there was Panipat 1761 – the dreadful battle where the Maratha army led by Sadashivrao Bhau was defeated by the forces of the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Durrani, and left an indelible scar on the Maratha psyche. The word ‘Panipat’ has since entered the vernacular lexicon to signify a spectacular debacl ....

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